Quotes About Awareness

The primary reason that I'd be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

My father, who is now 94, was an actor. The prime thing he taught us as children was to walk through the world with our eyes open.

There's a feeling of invincibility that comes with being young, with being fit and in the prime of your life. But I learned when I was in the Marines just like I've learned as a UFC fighter that no one is invincible, and that you have to project yourself at all times.

If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

Given how dangerous it is for someone to consume something they are allergic to, you would think that companies would just make sure they print labels which have the allergy information on.

Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.

By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' became a part of the lexicon.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

My priorities are going to be to play a very balanced role in the sense that I have to keep an eye on the challenges in the environment. At the same time, I have to keep an eye on the optimism that is there for India.

The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.

Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.

We will not give up the fight to ensure that mental health is the given the priority it needs and deserves.

Eating well is a lifelong priority. My appreciation for cooking and healthy living came from watching my best friend die from liver cancer in 2008. I realized that I needed to make some big changes if I wanted to be around for a long time, so now I'm more cautious of how much I eat, what I'm eating, and how often.

I have learnt to give my health priority and not to dismiss any health issue.

National Cancer Prevention Day, Feb. 4, is a great opportunity to focus our attention on what should be an American priority.

I shopped at Harrods and Louis Vuitton, as they were top on my priority list. And that's when a friendly shopkeeper told me that I could get mugged as my luxury bags were screaming for attention. And he gave me garbage bags to cover them. So here I was walking around in London with garbage bags in my hand.

It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.